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A real Atari disk is a complex mess of adhesive magnetic stuff, made sense of by a dedicated floppy disk controller and then made useable by a computer in the disk drive. All these things boil the structure of the real disk down to a specific number of useable sectors for each recording surface, each of a fixed length.
Mar 21, 2008 · maximum size of a real atari disk can't exceed 0xFFFD80 (65535 sectors, double density). So only the first byte of this field should be used. ----- In revision 4.05 of SIO2PC, Nick Kennedy has further extended his format to. cover some disk protection schemes.
Sep 17, 2014 · AtariZoll wrote: Case 1: making completely new image: first thing is creation of empty image file od desired size - according to capacity of target CF card (or SD card, or classic hard disk) . So, need to create file of let say 950 MB for 1GB cards. Can be done with some better hex editor.
Jun 4, 2020 · Posted By Timothy KlineJun 4, 2020. Below is a list of drives compatible with the A8 range of computers. It's by no means exhaustive, but at least provide the model numbers of the vast majority know to have existed. NB: All drives are 5¼", single sided and single density as standard. Additional features are listed:-.
The 810, Atari's original release, is a single density drive that offers 18 sectors per track and 128 bytes per sector. With 720 sectors per disk, it has a capacity of 92,160 bytes. The 815 is a double density drive that offers 18 sectors per track and 256 bytes per sector. It has the same 720 sectors per disk and a capacity of 184,320 bytes.
The Atari 810 Disk Drive was Atari's first disk drive for its line of Atari 400/800 computers. Providing 88K of storage per disk side, the 810 gave Atari computer users the ability to quickly store and retrieve documents and program files to and from the storage device. Up to 4 Atari 810's could be daisy chained together via the Atari SIO bus ...
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Feb 10, 2022 · They are basically the same game, Atari started rereleasing a number of popular disk games on cartridge when the XEGS was released, including Karateka. Karateka was released on cartridge in 1989 near the end of its life and it's become one of the harder cartridges to find. goto some online archives such as this.
